[talk] Holidaze, AWS, and astounding "clock drift outage"

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

Hi All,

After weeks of nonsense (and boring long stories),

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> A bit OT from the pit of internet hell, but perhaps of interest to folks
> here: This weekend AWS has been doling out a disruption of service of
> the worst kind, clock skew insanity.  And when I say insanity, I mean
> true madness.

Updates, perhaps of interest in several categories,

Through continued holiday NTP/hardware adventure, we were told we were casualties of a Xen exploit to be publicly announced Thursday:
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/

As of today, Intel appears to be prepping to get in the mix, with issues apparently *quite* related,
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table

Thursday my Ops teammates and I will certainly be popping popcorn to watch this show.

--
When we all knew how stupid this technical approach was years ago, why has the cloud taken the shape it has?
https://youtu.be/z7LsKtHXAmo?t=2545

I'm looking forward to the day the current favella of what we currently call "the cloud" has burned to the ground.  And, I hope not completely burned- so we can look upon it's ashes for centuries and know how *not* to build things.

Best,
.ike